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<p>Minimum qualifications:</p><ul>
<li>Ability to lift/move 25kg/55lbs of equipment as required</li><li>Ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, holidays and on shift-based schedules as required</li><li>Ability to exert yourself physically over extended periods of time, including frequent bending, kneeling, climbing, pushing/pulling and lifting</li><li>Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically</li></ul><br/>
<p>Preferred qualifications:</p><ul>
<li>Experience in a skilled production, manufacturing, or assembly (non-technical) field</li><li>Ability to perform component level-replacements on equipment</li><li>Ability to understand, and to effectively execute, verbal and written instructions</li><li>Ability to work well within a team-oriented environment and maintain a positive attitude</li><li>Completion of the online Google IT Support Professional Certificate program</li></ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the job</b></h2>
The Hardware Operations team is responsible for monitoring, maintaining and deploying the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. As a Data Center Technician, you'll deploy and maintain Google's advanced Data Center Server and Network Infrastructure. You'll also participate in or lead local project teams on larger installations and develop project contingency plans.<br/>
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In this role, duties range from the physical deployment of data center-related technology to working closely with the various stakeholders. It will fall to you to ensure that our goals, missions and projects are successfully delivered, and, more importantly, that they are repeatable across our global array of data centers. This position offers a great introduction to the wider engineering world at Google. Depending of your area of interest, capabilities, and geographical mobility, you will have the opportunity to develop either within Hardware Operations or move towards software development, engineering, networking operations or our project management groups.<p>
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.</p></div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Responsibilities</b></h2><ul>
<li>Recognize and swap-out key broken or damaged parts while following defined process and performing other tasks as directed</li><li>Run/install ethernet and fiber optic cable per defined process</li><li>Follow clearly defined procedures when handling tapes and other media</li><li>Use software tools to perform job functions</li><li>Transfer tools, parts, equipment, and supplies to and from work stations and other areas using barcode scanners and associated software tools</li></ul></div>At Google, we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.</body>
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